Joining and leaving discord servers is easy though. I tend to leave discord servers once the RP is finished (or dead) and usually have anyone I'd want to bother talking with again on my friends list. 

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[s]It also could be a less terrible way to tell those in your RP group that you aren't going to post. Instead of putting it somewhere like the status bar, where no one will read it. (I'm not even in a group. So directed at no one. But yeah, just saying.)[/s]
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I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt when I can, but I can't fathom a good reason to use the status bar for status updates. Which is weird when you think about it. The status bar has become a sort of public space to meme, make vague comments on your life, sad post, share tired quotes, etc.  

The only people I can see using it for actual statuses are A: took on way too many RPs and feel they only have enough time to write a status update or B: They simply can't be bothered to tell anyone they will be busy, so they write a note on their profile. It just comes across as a little vain.

Doing this in a discord is fine, but it feels like there's always someone who misses it.